PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell, already serving life sentences in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, will be sentenced Friday on two murder […]
Disgraced former US Rep. George Santos to begin serving his 7-year fraud sentence
NEW YORK — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence on Friday for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress. […]
Columbia genocide scholar may leave over university’s new antisemitism definition
NEW YORK — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: […]
Winning numbers drawn in Wednesday’s Powerball
The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Powerball” game were: 02-18-19-25-35, Powerball: 25, Power Play: 3 (two, eightteen, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-five, Powerball: twenty-five, Power Play: three) Estimated jackpot: […]
Authorities identify Ohio man who died in shooting after he wounded 3 police officers
LORAIN, Ohio — The shooter of three Ohio police officers in an ambush attack was identified Thursday by the Lorain County Coroner’s Office as 28-year-old Michael Parker. The coroner’s office […]
Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again with changing tides and shifting sands
WAIANAE, Hawaii — Hawaiian petroglyphs dating back at least a half-millennium are visible on Oahu for the first time in years, thanks to seasonal ocean swells that peel away sand […]
Trump envoy Witkoff says US cutting short Gaza ceasefire talks, bringing home negotiating team
White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, from right, Donald Trump Jr., and Bettina Anderson watch as President Donald Trump arrives at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., en route to attend […]
New Orleans trash collectors litigate over removing foul French Quarter odors
NEW ORLEANS — The stench of trash and residue of bad decisions in one of America’s favorite party hotspots is being scrubbed away, thanks to a change in garbage collectors […]
Tennessee contests disabling an inmate’s heart device at a hospital on execution day
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would […]
Trump’s USDA to scatter half its Washington staff to field offices. Critics see a ploy to cut jobs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will move thousands of employees out of the nation’s capital in a reorganization the agency says will put them closer to customers […]